This class is both interesting and easy. Take it if you can! You don't have to show up to lecture; his slides are very comprehensive. There are NO exams, just 10 short weekly papers that are 400 words and a final paper. He gives extra credit, so do those when you have the free time - it will literally boost your grade like 3% each and they aren't graded harshly at all. Your grade is completely dependent on your TA so just go to office hours to make them see you try and make them read your papers for tips, especially your final. Start the final early if you can, other than the final this class takes like no time so just start early so you can make a good impression on your TA and keep bugging them for revisions.

Listen, to be quite frank this professor was exceptional and is the ideal professor for most type of students. What I mean by this is that his class is very interesting with simplistic concepts that are very much suitable for the most studious of students to the most degenerate and lazy. If you wish to genuinely learn, do the readings and attend your lectures, if not, then do the contrary. If you wish to get an A in this class, breath and don't go braindead.

Don't go to class, you don't need to. Easy A as long as you can write decent essays and your TA is nice.

Two things to know about this class:
1. You do not need to go to lecture, no one does.
2. The TA determines your grade completely

Oh my... I went to almost every lecture he presented because I felt bad for him. After Week 3, attendance in his lectures dropped drastically to no more than 25 people - which is sad. He really is committed to what he teaches. That's mostly why I went to his lectures. I didn't take notes, you don't really need to as he uploads slides online. The actual material is dry. 75% was realism and 25% was liberalism. I was chilling with this class.
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This class was a joke. Didn't go to lecture after week 1 (they're not helpful at all he just reads off the slides), did enough reading to hand in weekly 400 word essays and got the easiest A+ of my life.

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Attending discussion is what will determine your grade. Going to lecture is pointless, you'll learn more by reading from the book. It does require a lot of writing, but the essays are not hard, it is mostly based on your opinion on the issue. There was no midterm and our final was a take home essay. It is an easy A as long as you go to discussion and write the papers.

As long as you show up to discussions and answer the TA's questions, you don't need to attend the lectures. I didn't show up to any lectures after week 3 because all the essays were based off of topics in the textbook. The essays themselves weren't that difficult, in my opinion, but it pretty much depends on your TA. Make sure to do the readings to avoid awkward silences in discussion sections and to supplement the essays.
I'd take it again, not for the professor, but because it was relatively easy to get an A.

Professor Wilkinson only talks using the slides. He posts the slides right after he presents them. The first week the lecture hall was full and by the end of week 3 people did not show up. His voice is extremely monotone and he takes office hours right after class. I learned a lot from my TA, he taught the material from class again and often answered questions. This class is really writing intensive, a total of 5 papers throughout the quarter, The first four were of two pages each single spaces and the final was a 4000 word essay single spaced as well. The textbook is necessary to get good grades on the essays, but that depends on your TA. I did not really use my textbook unless it was for a specific essay.